Zdravko Kovač News
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- Slovenia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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2018-05-16 14:53:13
The recently-formed piano quintet Philharmonic Five, comprising Vienna Philharmonic musicians Tibor Kovac, Ekaterina Frolova, Gerhard Maschner and Peter Somodari with pianist Christopher Hinterhuber, performing John Williams‘ ‘Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter’. Recorded as part of the ensemble’s new album Mission Possible – on the Sony Classical label. PHILHARMONIC FIVE | JOHN WILLIAMS | HARRY POTTER ‘HEDWIG’S […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2016-11-06 21:00:53
An historic week in the offing. Thankfully, there’s a number of intriguing music events to calm us down and capture our imagination. Tuesday, November 8 UT Jazz Big Band Ensemble concert 8:00 PM, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center FREE UT School of Music, Guest Artist Recital: Caroline Chin, violin 9:00 PM, Performance Hall #32, Alumni Memorial Building FREE Wednesday, November 9 Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Q-Series The Principal Quartet and the Woodwind Quintet Dohnanyi: Serenade in C Major, Op. 10 Coleman: Portraits of Josephine Baker D’Rivera: Wapango Ravel/arr. Kessler: Habanera NOON, The Square Room, 4 Market Square Single tickets are $18 in advance/$20 at the door. Includes lunch. Thursday, November 10 University of Tennessee Opera Theatre: Monteverdi’s Ulysses Four performances 8 PM, Carousel Theatre, UT Campus Tickets at the Clarence […]
2015-08-23 04:59:00
Of all the repertoire symphonies Mahler´s Third is the longest though not the most complex (the same composer´s Eighth, "Of the Thousand", holds that laurel). One hour and forty minutes, six movements, written between 1895-6 for a huge orchestra. My favorite Mahler symphonies are (in order) the Ninth, the Second, the Fifth, the First, the Sixth and the Forth. The two that I like less (not counting the incomplete Tenth) are the Third and the Seventh, but in fact I deeply love all of them and they are certainly the most important corpus of symphonies of Late Romanticism after Brahms and ahead of Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Sibelius and Bruckner, the other unassailable contestants of the period. In fact, the […]
Brian Dickie, Life as General Director of Chicago
2012-12-28 03:40:31
A triumph of creative minimalism - Médée at COT 2011 By the time we had to finalize the planning of the 2011 Chicago Opera Theater season the world was in a deep long tunnel of financial darkness with so sign of light in the future. This would have been around the autumn of 2009, the last moment really to make adjustments to a season which would be announced in February 2010 to go on sale later that spring. We were faced with profound disagreements at board level with doves and hawks squabbling as rarely seen before. The whole purpose of the company appeared to be discussion - bad stuff indeed! It was, maybe, a micro version of the "fiscal cliff" discussions now being battled out in Washington. We were committed to a programme which fulfilled our pledges to the Mellon Foundation - the source of a $500k grant for the […]
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